Evolutionary Algorithms for Malware Detection and Classification

Abstract .....................................................................................................570 21.1 Introduction ....................................................................................570 21.2 Calculating Malware Op-Code Frequencies ..................................572 21.3 ANOVA and Duncan Multiple Range Tests ...................................574 21.4 Classification of Samples ...............................................................579 21.4.1 Binary Classification ........................................................579 21.4.1.1 Decision Tree Classification ...........................579 21.4.1.2 ANN Classification .........................................581 21.4.1.3 Naïve Bays Classification ...............................583 21.4.1.4 Support Vector Machine Classification ...........584 21.4.2 Multi-Class Classification ................................................588 21.4.2.1 Decision Tree Classification ...........................588 21.4.2.2 ANN Classification .........................................588